It serves better to have just one voice giving you the welcome message
and explaining what Ruby is and what it does (intro and reference),
and not an overwhelming choir of voices, each telling its own version.
Once you know what it is, you can pick the tutorial, manual or user
guide you want.
Michel
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:35:16 -0800 (PST), David A. Black
<dblack at wobblini.net> wrote:
> HI --
>> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Michel Martens wrote:
>> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:56:26 -0500, Todd Grimason <todd at slack.net> wrote:
> >> * Ben Giddings [2005-02-23 23:29]:
> >>
> >>> If the documentation is on ruby-lang.org, that
> >>> makes it clear that it's official. If there's a link from
> >>> ruby-lang.org, that suggests the documentation is approved, but not
> >>> necessarily official.
> >>
> >> I think the docs on the main site is preferable, but perl shows if
> >> it's done well it's perfectly usable. It would be nice if there was
> >> *some* consistency between lang and docs, even just the main color
> >> used like between perl.com and cpan.org ("perl blue", originally from
> >> the camel book I'd guess).
> >
> > In my opinion, there can be many tutorials, user guides, FAQs,
> > "Getting started in Ruby by Joe Doe", written in lots of different
> > languages, and all of them can coexist at ruby-doc.org. But there
> > should be (again, in my opinion) one and only one reference and one
> > and only one intro integrated into the ruby-lang.org website. A "Learn
> > more..." link from the reference or the intro pointing to ruby-doc.org
> > will suffice.
>> How does that better serve the visitor than having, say, a list of
> tutorials, including a direct link to the online Pickaxe? The
> architecture of any given site does not have to be determined or
> constrained by any other site -- meaning, in this case, that if a
> direct link to something seems desireable for visitors to Ruby's
> homepage, then there should be such a link, not just a straight line
> to some other page where there is such a link.
>> I'm actually a little surprised that this -- the fundamental
> constructive principle of the Web, not to mention Gopher -- is such a
> sticking point.
>> David
>> --
> David A. Black
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